[Dev Diary] Summer Event 2018

More information about the upcoming Summer Event 2018

Dear Settlers,

The long-awaited Summer Event is making its way to the live servers! It's going to kick-off with brand new features: an exciting specialist, building, quest chain, buffs and a plethora of changes compared to previous editions.

The event resource is called Footballs. They can be traded and are listed in the Storehouse (Event tab) as usual.

Footballs can be gathered in a variety of ways:

Collectible footballs spawn on the home zone

Normal Adventures have a chance to drop footballs, including scenarios and some mini-missions

Event adventures from the event calendar always drop a fixed amount of footballs

Event quests reward footballs

Treasure hunts can reward footballs on top of the usual loot

Event achievements reward the player with Footballs upon completion

The merchant

Trading with other players

Introducing A Host of Responsibilities, a new quest chain that starts at level 22 or above. It deals with the costs and responsibilities of hosting tournament matches on your island. The rewards focus on coins, a stacking population growth buff (that is immediately applied; it doesn't go to the star menu), and a big reward for completing the whole chain. ﻿The new quest chain's sub-quests unlock after a certain number of days after your first login during the event, and not the event start.

For the first 15 days of the event, a new quest in this chain will be unlocked and starts if or when you have finished the preceding one. For example, if you don't finish the first quest until the third day, then you will get the second quest immediately upon completing it, followed by the third quest after the second one is done. If you then complete the third quest on day three, you will still not receive the fourth quest until the fourth day of the event. The daily time during which a new quest is unlocked should match the first time that you logged in during the event.

Every day, you will receive a random quest, similar in scope to regular daily quests, that will reward various tactical resources. Running Premium time will trigger two such quests.

A tournament quest chain will guide you through the mechanics of the event, in regard to collecting of tactical resources, production of tactics buffs and their use in the event scenarios. The quest chain is linked to the Fixture List, as the quests will often ask you to open certain doors.

In order to access the Fixture List, just click on the icon next to your avatar.

3 DIFFERENT TYPES OF DOORS

There is a total of 21 doors. You can open one door each day.

Type: Regular doorAmount: 11Description: Can be opened on the specific date displayed or for 20 gems afterwardsRequirement: It doesn't matter if previous doors are still closed or notRewards: Provides basic rewards (such as resources), sometimes chosen randomly

Type: Adventure doorAmount: 5
Description: Can be opened any time for free, once the respective date was reachedRequirement: It doesn't matter if previous doors are still closed or notRewards: One of the Summer Event Adventures

Type: Special doorAmount: 5Description: Can be opened on the specific date displayed or for 50 gems afterwards.Requirement: All previous doors need to be openRewards: Most special doors offer a choice between several rewards when opened

There are 12 different Tactical Resources which you can use in the Provision House to produce Tactical Items. These tactical resources are tradeable and can be acquired in the following ways:

As loot from regular adventures

As collectables on the home island

As additional loot from treasure searches

As a reward for event quest

As purchase from the in-game merchant

Tactical resource

Adventure Drop

Treasure Loot

Collectibles

Shoe

Banana peel

Red Color

Telescope

Fist

Training dummy

Elastic spring

Shoulder pad

Helmet

Studs

Wet Grass

Grease

Footballs

Tactical items are obtained through the Provision House, and can be used as follows:

They are needed to successfully complete Event Adventures.

Most of them are usable against multiple different skills.

They are produced from combinations of types of 2 Tactical Resources (except for "Red Card", that requires Advanced Paper)

Adventure Doors can be opened any time for free, once the respective date was reached (even if previous doors were not opened).
Therefore, every player is able to play all the available adventures.

5 non-combat Event Adventures inspired by football matches become available through the Fixture List: Practice Match, Round of 16, Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals, and Finals.

The goal of the Special Event Adventures is to win football matches by countering all of the opponents' skills.
You do this by applying the correct Tactical Items. Every opponent unit/skill can be defeated by either of two Tactical Items (your choice).

Adventure Tournament Mode
Bear in mind that your matches have to be completed in order. You will not be able to start an adventure if you haven’t completed the quest to beat the previous one first (*). To make things easier, if you cancel one of the adventures it will return to you by mail. Your progress will not be saved, but you won’t get stuck and you can use this method to scout your opponent’s skills.

* The adventure "Practice match" does not have to be completed.

Completing event related achievements is a means of earning footballs. The achievements do not contribute to the overall achievement score and the ones that have not been earned by the end of the event will be hidden from the achievement menu.
The achievements deal with many aspects of the event:

Completing tournament adventures

Opening all doors of the Fixture List

Completing Summer quests

Earning footballs through explorer searches

Collecting event collectables

Producing tactical buffs

Trading tactical resources

Winning all matches earns you a golden statue: the Champion's Trophy 2018!

A new Geologist that you might remember from the previously published Sneak Peek is making his way to our islands. Introducing the Stone-Cold Geologist, a geologist whose main expertise is finding stone, marble, and granite deposits of doubled size, and in half the usual time.

Facilities such as Snack Stands are always a good idea when hosting tournaments on your home island. Treat your guests with a delicious Stadium Snack, refreshing beverages such as Red Flying Settler, or - why not - Hot Lemon Tea. Every additional Snack Stand increases production speed by 100%.

The event will be deactivated in 2 steps. As known from previous events, most of the features will not be available anymore during the Removal phase. The deactivation will then be conducted 1 week later.

Removal phase start: 17th of July 2018 at 09:00 BST

Event quests will be deactivated / cancelled

Event Achievements will no longer be obtainable

The Achievement category will disappear for everyone who didn't gain event Achievement

The first spawn of collectables during the Removal Phase won't provide event resources any more

In most cases Explorers won't find event resources any more.

Adventure and Expedition loot won't include event resources

Event adventures are being cancelled

Event adventures cannot be started but can be deleted

Tactical buffs cannot be produced

Tactical resources are hidden from the storage and star menu

Trade offers involving tactical resources cannot be initiated. Already existing ones are hidden until they run out

The event art will be removed from the loading screen

The event info window and Fixture list will be deactivated

The event shop will still be available except for Tactical Resources

Deactivation: 24th of July 2018 at 09:00 BST30th of July at 22:59 BST

The Event Shop category will be deactivated

New trades containing event currency cannot be posted anymore

Existing trade offers containing event currency will be invisible until they expire

Resource and item exchange

Event currency will be removed from the game and exchanged for 1 Gold Coin each

Tactical resources are removed from the star menu, all storages and mail attachments without compensation

Tactical buffs are removed from the star menu without compensation

Event adventures are removed from the star menu and mail attachments without compensation

Update 03.07.18

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Dear settlers,

We would like to share further insights with you in regard to the tactical resources drop. The table below and the presence of the icon under one of the 3 categories indicates whether they can be found in adventure loot, treasure loot or collectible item, respectively.

Update 06.08.18

Many questions about the Lucky Explorer limit have been raised and some elements of the Summer event in the game.

Lucky Explorer

The limit will be raised to 9 for every player.
If you didn't obtain a Lucky Explorer with Gems during the event, you can do so after the next game update.

Summer event deactivation

The event collectable items and event buffs will be removed with the next game update. The logo and the loading screen will also be reverted back to normal. These elements are still visible due to the extension of the deactivation phase.

The next game update is scheduled for August 22nd. A change log will be published on Monday, August 13th.